36 of them. How the system works, what it does at your belt, and where it is genuinely limited. If something is missing, write to scott@jitsai.com and it gets added.
ONE FOCUS. ONE WEEK. PROVE IT.
It is a coach and tracker for Brazilian jiu-jitsu built around one rule: one focus, one week, prove it. You pick a single position you are sick of losing, every class that week gets a job, and a nine-level ladder scores that technique by who it actually worked on. The point is not to log training. The point is to end the week knowing something you did not know on Monday.
One position, one week. You choose a single focus and the app gives every session a job: a short prep before you train, a check-in after. The target is three focus sessions in the week. Hit fewer and the app suggests rolling the same focus into a second week, because proof takes reps.
Everyone does, and that is the reason most people plateau. Working on five things means five things get a quarter of your attention and none of them get tested properly. One focus is the only way to get enough repetitions against enough different bodies to know whether it works. You are not giving anything up, you are queueing it.
Every technique climbs nine levels based on who it worked on. Levels 1 to 3 are lighter, same weight, then heavier partners who are less experienced than you. Levels 4 to 6 are the same climb against similarly experienced partners. Levels 7 to 9 are against people more experienced than you. The tiers run Wood, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Gladiator, Praetorian, Imperator.
One clean night only hits a level. Proving it takes three wins across at least two different sessions. That gap is deliberate: one good night can be a tired partner or a lucky grip, and two sessions apart is much harder to fake. No claiming, no vibes.
Because a sweep that works on a smaller white belt is not the same skill as the sweep that works on a heavier purple belt. Each level is earned on its own, and clearing a hard one never fills in the ones below it. That is what stops the ladder from turning into a participation chart.
It closes the loop most people never close. You get taught something, you drill it, then nobody ever checks whether it survives live resistance against a specific kind of person. JitsAI forces that check every session and keeps the score, so your training stops being a series of disconnected classes and becomes a sequence of answered questions.
The first Focus Week changes how you train immediately, because you walk into class with a job instead of a vague intention. Seeing it in the data takes longer: proving a single level needs three wins across two sessions, so a realistic first proof is one to three weeks depending on how often you train.
It still works, it just moves slower. The week targets three focus sessions, so on two sessions a week the app will usually suggest carrying the same focus into a second week. If anything the system matters more when you train less, because you have fewer rounds to waste on whatever you happen to feel like that day.
Nothing bad, and it is not really a failure. You either proved the technique or you learned it does not hold up yet against that kind of partner, which is genuinely useful information. The app reviews the week with you and you decide: run it again, or move on.
It is close to the best time. Coming back is exactly when training drifts into aimless rolling, and one focus gives an easy week a point. Start on something low intensity and against lighter or less experienced partners, which is the bottom of the ladder anyway.
No, and it is not trying to. Your coach teaches you jiu-jitsu and watches you move, which no app can do. This tells you what to take into their class and what actually survived when you got there.
It is arguably most useful at white belt, because the biggest white belt problem is having no idea what to work on. The app picks a starting focus from your quiz answers, the prep lesson teaches it before class, and the bottom of the ladder is built around partners who are lighter and less experienced than you. You are not expected to arrive with a game.
The blue belt plateau is usually a collection problem: a lot of half-known techniques and no proof of which ones hold up. This turns that pile into a queue, one position at a time, and shows you in black and white which of your moves work on people your size and above. Most people find the honest answer uncomfortable and then very useful.
Measurement, mostly. By purple you have a game, but you probably could not say which parts of it work on bigger or more experienced people and which quietly only work on juniors. Levels 7 to 9 exist for exactly that question, and head-to-head records make the gaps obvious.
The system does not change, only the difficulty of the levels you care about. At that stage the interesting rungs are the ones against more experienced partners, and the useful output is the pattern across months of rolls rather than any single session. Plenty of upper belts also use it simply so their competition and open mat data stops living in their head.
Blue belt, on balance. That is where the gap between how much you know and how much you can prove is widest, and where people most often quit. White belts get direction, upper belts get measurement, blue belts get both.
Yes. There is an academy setup with a coach dashboard, shared links and student tagging so you can see how your members are actually progressing rather than guessing. Details are on the academies page.
The standard check-in is about twenty seconds. It asks three things: whether you did focused rounds, how many, and for each round who it was against by weight and experience, plus whether the technique worked, scored as 0, 1, or 2 or more clean completions.
Instead of tapping, you talk at your phone like you are telling a friend about the session. It pulls out the techniques, partners and attempts and matches them against your technique library. It is the fastest option when a session was messy and you want to describe it rather than categorise it.
No. Only focused rounds matter, and a focused round is any live round where you deliberately went for your focus. It does not have to be the whole round, and the rest of your rolling can go unlogged without breaking anything.
Log it later. It is better to add a session the next morning than to leave a hole in the week, and you can set a reminder so the prompt arrives while the session is still fresh.
Yes, and they are some of the most valuable entries you have, because competition partners are usually strangers at your weight and level. Score them the same way: who they were, and whether the technique landed cleanly.
Whether a specific technique produced a clean result against a specific kind of person. Rounds with two or more clean completions are what move the ladder. Everything else is context.
It is good at pulling structure out of a normal spoken recap and matching it to techniques you already have saved, and it is less reliable with unusual naming or several partners described at once. You see what it extracted before the session is saved, so anything it misreads you can correct in a couple of taps.
Easily, and that is worth being straight about. The ladder is only as honest as your input, and nothing stops you marking a win you did not get. What the design does is make lying pointless: the reward is knowing which techniques you can rely on when it counts, and a ladder you inflated tells you nothing on competition day.
Because one clean finish is frequently luck, fatigue, or a partner having an off day. Requiring the result to repeat on a different day against the same category of partner removes most of that noise. It is a deliberately hard standard, which is what makes a proven level mean anything.
It answers from what you have logged, not from generic advice, so its usefulness scales with how much you have actually recorded. If you have logged three sessions it will say fairly thin things. Treat it as a reading of your own data rather than an oracle, and check anything that contradicts your coach on the mats.
Everything you have logged: your rolls, your current focus and ladder state, your head-to-head records, your saved techniques and your archetype. You can ask it what to work on, why something keeps failing, or how to approach a specific type of partner.
What counted on the ladder, what stopped you, and one specific thing to drill next session. It is kept under 220 words on purpose. It arrives shortly after you save the session review.
The fundamentals curriculum is taught by world champion Henrique Rezende, and the week’s pinned lesson matches whatever focus you are on. Lifetime members also get the vault, which includes the Lucas Lepri seminar filmed in London and the Matheus Spirandeli seminar.
The library covers 82 techniques, broken into 12 foundation, 30 intermediate, 34 advanced and 6 game studies, alongside a 74-lesson fundamentals course.
On a class day the home screen offers a short lesson pinned to your exact focus, meant for the bus, the car, or the mats before warm-up. It primes the thing you are about to drill so class time lands harder.
Yes. You can save techniques from TikTok, Instagram and YouTube into your library, and the app organises them against the positions you actually train rather than leaving them in a folder you never open.
Yes. JitsAI is available on both the App Store and Google Play.
You start with a trial for a nominal fee, and it becomes an annual subscription if you do nothing. Cancel any time during the trial and you pay nothing beyond that first amount. There is also a one-off lifetime option which cancels any running subscription the moment it goes through. Exact current pricing is shown at checkout for your country.
The quiz takes two minutes and ends with the position worth your next week.
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